Azaleas Zen Rock Garden / Shuon-an Ikkyu-ji Temple 酬恩庵 一休寺
location : The Shuon'an Ikkyu-ji Temple ,Kyotanabe city,Kyoto prefecture,Japan
京田辺市 酬恩庵 一休寺（とんちで有名な一休さんのお寺）
方丈南庭 (江戸時代/枯山水）
The southern dry landscape garden of Hojo
This garden is so-called Hojo Front Garden ,which is placed in front of the Hojo (abbot's quarters )
Generally the design is very simple,because it's said that the predecessor was a kind of open spaces for Buddhist ceremonies . The patterns/lines of white sands represent the ocean,... or floating water by covering in white sands with rake lines.
The building at left-back of the garden is Gobyosho 御廟所 the mausoleum for Sojun Ikkyu Zenji 一休宗純禅師 who spend his final years here,and actually was built by himself at age of 82.
Ikkyu Zenji is one of the princes of Emperor Gokomatsu ,( 1377-1433)the 100th Emperor ,and the mausoleum is under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Household Agency.
At the right-back is a tea ceremony house,Kokyu-an Hermitage 虎丘庵 in which he lived his final year with his lover Shinjyo 森女. :)
Thank you for your interest and seeing my photo :)
Masko Ishida (maco-nonch★R)
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The Shoun'an Ikkyu Temple
This temple was inauguarated at its the present site as a Zen monastery and was given its name,Myoshoji Temple,by Daigo-kokushi(alias Nampo Jomyo, a high priest of the Zen sect,upon his return from T'ang (China)where he had studied the doctrines of the Zen as a disciple to Kidou-odho ,a celebrated bonze of the time.
The Myoshoji Temand remained in ruins until it was restored in the second year of Kosei(1451) by Ikkyu-zenji 一休禅師,the sixth Chief abbot to the Daitokuji branch of the Rinzai sect.ple was destroyed in the war during the year of Genko(1331),He named the temple the Shuuon'an and deicated it as a memorial to the founder.
Ikkyu-zenzi lived the rest of his life in this temple,and commuted to the Daitokuji Temple in Kyoto to which he was appointed Chief abbot at the age of 81.He passed away to November 21 in the thirteenth year of Bummei(1481) ,at 88 and was buried in the mausoleum annexed to this temple.
Rock Gardens :
Rock Gardens ,designated spot of scenic beauty.There are two rock gardens,the Kokyu Garden and the Hojo Garden,both designated as objects of scenic beauty.The Kokyu Gaden ,which surrounds the Kokyu-An (Hermitage) is a typical Zen-style rock garden attributed to Murata Juko(1442-1502)the founder of ceremonial tea art.The Hojo garden is another typical rock garden from early Edo period attributed to three distinguished designers of the time,Shokado,Sagawada Kiroku(Kodak) and Ishikswa Johan.The percuilar rocks standing I the garden are assumed to symbolize the sixteen disciples of Buddha distorting themselves,steep mountains with deep valleys,and a torrential water-fall descending in two steps to flow through a number of rock-works.The massive rocks and their exquisite layout should be considered a masterpiece of the rock gardens built in the early Edo period.
-the Shuon'an Ikkyuji Temple
This temple has an explicit no-tripod policy, so tripods, including monopods, are usually prohibited .
Canon EOS M5 / EF-M18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM/ƒ/5.0 18.0 mm 1/160sec ISO160/ all manual /no editing
This temple has an explicit no-tripod policy, so tripods, including monopods, are usually prohibited.
Azaleas Zen Rock Garden / Shuon-an Ikkyu-ji Temple 酬恩庵 一休寺
location : The Shuon'an Ikkyu-ji Temple ,Kyotanabe city,Kyoto prefecture,Japan
京田辺市 酬恩庵 一休寺（とんちで有名な一休さんのお寺）
方丈南庭 (江戸時代/枯山水）
The southern dry landscape garden of Hojo
This garden is so-called Hojo Front Garden ,which is placed in front of the Hojo (abbot's quarters )
Generally the design is very simple,because it's said that the predecessor was a kind of open spaces for Buddhist ceremonies . The patterns/lines of white sands represent the ocean,... or floating water by covering in white sands with rake lines.
The building at left-back of the garden is Gobyosho 御廟所 the mausoleum for Sojun Ikkyu Zenji 一休宗純禅師 who spend his final years here,and actually was built by himself at age of 82.
Ikkyu Zenji is one of the princes of Emperor Gokomatsu ,( 1377-1433)the 100th Emperor ,and the mausoleum is under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Household Agency.
At the right-back is a tea ceremony house,Kokyu-an Hermitage 虎丘庵 in which he lived his final year with his lover Shinjyo 森女. :)
Thank you for your interest and seeing my photo :)
Masko Ishida (maco-nonch★R)
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The Shoun'an Ikkyu Temple
This temple was inauguarated at its the present site as a Zen monastery and was given its name,Myoshoji Temple,by Daigo-kokushi(alias Nampo Jomyo, a high priest of the Zen sect,upon his return from T'ang (China)where he had studied the doctrines of the Zen as a disciple to Kidou-odho ,a celebrated bonze of the time.
The Myoshoji Temand remained in ruins until it was restored in the second year of Kosei(1451) by Ikkyu-zenji 一休禅師,the sixth Chief abbot to the Daitokuji branch of the Rinzai sect.ple was destroyed in the war during the year of Genko(1331),He named the temple the Shuuon'an and deicated it as a memorial to the founder.
Ikkyu-zenzi lived the rest of his life in this temple,and commuted to the Daitokuji Temple in Kyoto to which he was appointed Chief abbot at the age of 81.He passed away to November 21 in the thirteenth year of Bummei(1481) ,at 88 and was buried in the mausoleum annexed to this temple.
Rock Gardens :
Rock Gardens ,designated spot of scenic beauty.There are two rock gardens,the Kokyu Garden and the Hojo Garden,both designated as objects of scenic beauty.The Kokyu Gaden ,which surrounds the Kokyu-An (Hermitage) is a typical Zen-style rock garden attributed to Murata Juko(1442-1502)the founder of ceremonial tea art.The Hojo garden is another typical rock garden from early Edo period attributed to three distinguished designers of the time,Shokado,Sagawada Kiroku(Kodak) and Ishikswa Johan.The percuilar rocks standing I the garden are assumed to symbolize the sixteen disciples of Buddha distorting themselves,steep mountains with deep valleys,and a torrential water-fall descending in two steps to flow through a number of rock-works.The massive rocks and their exquisite layout should be considered a masterpiece of the rock gardens built in the early Edo period.
-the Shuon'an Ikkyuji Temple
This temple has an explicit no-tripod policy, so tripods, including monopods, are usually prohibited .
Canon EOS M5 / EF-M18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM/ƒ/5.0 18.0 mm 1/160sec ISO160/ all manual /no editing
This temple has an explicit no-tripod policy, so tripods, including monopods, are usually prohibited.